Fox Mulder
You sent for me. I'm here.
Season 11 · Episode 1
My Struggle III
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official Blu-ray subtitle track.
Production code2AYW01Original airdate · January 3, 2018
345 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Previously · Recap
Dana Scully
We're witnessing what may be the advent of a global contagion.
Monica Reyes
Kill everyone but the chosen.
Dana Scully
Alien DNA mixed with our DNA.
Monica Reyes
Science given to them by an alien race.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Neither you nor I could save mankind from self-extermination. I just changed the timetable.
Dana Scully
Get to the hospital. Help is on its way, I promise.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
That their fates were sealed since birth. They were simply puppets. The world will go on. Just in my image instead of God's.
[SHOUTING]
Fox Mulder
Who sent you?
Scene 02
Prologue · The Smoking Man's Files
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You see a seemingly weak man... but I'm the most powerful man in the world. My name is Carl Gerhard Busch... but I've been known by many aliases... during my long career with the U.S. Government. It's been a humbling job, though I'm hardly known as a humble man. I've been a witness to history, much of it violent. Much of it an abomination of the values Americans hold dear. I've had a privileged seat at the centers of power... held the reins of that power, making sacrifices few are capable of. Of which even fewer still are willing. If people knew the truth, they'd riot in the streets. Too much is made of the will to power, as if our will is free, our choices our own. Our destinies are forged in our bones, made real by a raging impulse to self-destruct. I'm not a bad man. More a practical man. I have taken certain gifts I was given and made good men great. It is my greatness. I'm a father to two men who have figured more in the future than they might ever know. Both would end up working for the FBI... both complex but dedicated men who sacrificed dearly. And in their dogged pursuits would end up paying a terrible price... searching for truths as I parceled them out. Truths held only by the few who know the levers of power... and the invisible hand controlling them. Is there life out there? Good heavens, to doubt it is a failure of more than the imagination. It's a failure to recognize the limits of our own stupidity. The nascency of our science, the rudiment of our tools. We listen, we search, we hope for a sign, as if our eyes and ears are good enough... our brains large enough... our egos small enough. I'm an old man now. I will leave my own mark upon history. More than presidents or tyrants. I don't ask for loyalty and trust... the fleeting bonds of men. I ask only for the years to show my sons and their sons I was right. What their father did had to be done.
Scene 03
1969 · The Moon Landing Set
Neil Armstrong
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Cut!
[BELL RINGS]
Man
Reset. Back to one, everybody.
Scene 04
The X-Files Office · Paramedics
Paramedic
What's her heart rate? Heart rate elevated to 186 BPM. Ma'am, can you hear me? Can you hear me, ma'am? I need her blood pressure. No dilation, unresponsive. No indication of trauma.
Fox Mulder
You found her where she is? She must have fallen. It's me, Scully. Can you hear me?
Paramedic
Bit her tongue. No head trauma. Does she take meds?
Fox Mulder
No. She's healthy, a doctor. She would've told me.
Paramedic
Hey, hey, hey. We've got a gurney coming in.
Walter Skinner
What happened?
Fox Mulder
They said she had a seizure.
Paramedic
One, two, three, lift.
Fox Mulder
Gentle. Gentle.
Paramedic
Call the hospital with our ETA. Let's clear out. Coming through. I'm going with you.
[CHATTERING]
Scene 05
Our Lady of Sorrows · Waiting
Fox Mulder
I just want someone to tell me what the hell is going on here.
Walter Skinner
No news, good news, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
That's BS and you know it.
Walter Skinner
Why don't you go get some air? I'll text you when there's word.
Fox Mulder
I don't wanna hear it from you. I wanna talk to Scully.
Scene 06
Our Lady of Sorrows · Dr. Joyet
Dr. Joyet
Excuse me. Is one of you Fox Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Is she gonna be okay?
Dr. Joyet
I'm Dr. Joyet, her neurologist. We've done a series of tests-- Answer my question. The answer is we don't know.
Fox Mulder
What do you mean? What have you been doing?
Walter Skinner
Mulder, why don't you let her talk?
Fox Mulder
I wanna talk to Scully.
Dr. Joyet
She's still unconscious. What I know right now is that she has extremely abnormal brain activity.
Walter Skinner
Abnormal how?
Dr. Joyet
I need to show you something. We ran her through everything we have here. CTs, fMRI. The entire protocol. When I say abnormal... I don't see any damage, just gross abnormality. The brain is a very complex organ. A cascading series of subsets that begin and end with the prefrontal cortex... The part that makes us human. What you're seeing now is the PFC in real time. The reason I don't have any answers for you is I've never seen anything like this before.
Fox Mulder
What's this here?
Dr. Joyet
The hypothalamus. The area we associate with fight or flight.
Fox Mulder
I don't know what I'm looking at, but I'm reading this part as signal. I'm reading this flashing as code.
Dr. Joyet
You must be mistaken.
Walter Skinner
What do you mean "code"?
Fox Mulder
Six dots, two dashes: "Him." “Find him."
Dr. Joyet
This is insanity.
Fox Mulder
I wanna see her.
Scene 07
Our Lady of Sorrows · Scully's Room
[EKG BEEPING]
Fox Mulder
Can she hear us?
Dr. Joyet
What she needs right now is quiet, rest. Neurologically speaking, her brain's on fire.
Fox Mulder
I'm sure that’s what she needs, but I'm gonna stay here.
Walter Skinner
Mulder, a moment outside? You're not helping your cause.
Fox Mulder
Are you helping my cause?
Scene 08
Our Lady of Sorrows · Hallway
Fox Mulder
What if it was a message?
Walter Skinner
Find who? It's absurd.
Fox Mulder
Who would you be asking for?
Walter Skinner
Your son.
Fox Mulder
Why ask for him now? She's not dying.
Walter Skinner
Maybe she's not... but I've seen you believe far more absurd things, Agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Far less personal.
Walter Skinner
Hey. I care about her too. I'm just looking for answers here.
Fox Mulder
Then you go look for them, Skinner. Where I'm needed is in there.
Scene 09
Mulder's Thoughts
Fox Mulder
The thought is imperishable. A fear that takes hold in the gut. That the person you care for most in the world could be hurt by you... by your actions... the simple fact of knowing you. As she lies here, so helpless... those same thoughts and fears flood my mind with questions. If I caused this, how then can I make it stop?
Scene 10
Scully's Vision
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You think you know who I am.
Monica Reyes
I thought you were dead.
Agent Einstein
Massive contagion, alien DNA. Spartan Virus...
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You'll be dead yourself, within a week.
Scene 11
Scully's Room · She Wakes
Dana Scully
Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Scully.
Dana Scully
Mulder, you have to go.
Fox Mulder
I'm not going anywhere.
Dana Scully
To find the Smoking Man.
Fox Mulder
Scully, I'm gonna get your doctor.
Dana Scully
No, listen to me. I've seen it.
Fox Mulder
You've seen what, Scully?
Dana Scully
I know how it begins. There's a virus. The Spartan Virus. It shuts down our immune systems... and it starts a pandemic.
Fox Mulder
Scully. You had a seizure. You have extremely abnormal brain activity.
Dana Scully
No. A plague is released. But there's a cure. Mulder, I'm absolutely certain about this.
Fox Mulder
Okay. Tell me what you saw.
Dana Scully
You're dying, Mulder... and I can't save you. Not without stem cells from our son.
Fox Mulder
Scully, I'm fine. I'm here. There's no plague. You don't need to save me.
Dana Scully
The Smoking Man is behind it.
Fox Mulder
The Smoking Man is dead.
Dana Scully
No. No, he's not. He's alive. And he's in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Mulder... from where he unleashes hell on earth.
Fox Mulder
Scully, I don't doubt you, that you believe what you're saying... but the doctor said that your brain is on fire.
Dana Scully
It's me, Mulder. I'm not an irrational person. You have to find him and you have to stop him... before he kills you.
Fox Mulder
I'm gonna talk to your doctor first. Okay?
Scene 12
Parking Garage · Spender Attacked
[CAR STARTS]
[SHOUTING AND GRUNTING]
Assailant
Where's the boy? All we want is the boy.
Scene 13
Scully's Room · Dr. Joyet
Dr. Joyet
I don't doubt the visions. It's their specific etiology.
Dana Scully
I call them visions, but my experience of them was very real.
Dr. Joyet
Real is a subjective judgment. If you believe them to be real, they are to you. The question is where these visions came from. If the seizure caused them. Or the exact opposite. If the seizure was caused by the visions.
Fox Mulder
I don't understand the difference.
Dr. Joyet
Let's just Say we are verging on the fringes of accepted neurology.
Fox Mulder
You mean you think her visions have a source.
Dr. Joyet
This is rather sensitive territory.
Fox Mulder
I don't have to tell you that we live at the nexus of certain government agencies. CIA, DIA, NSA, DARPA... doing experiments on the mind even before the Cold War. We have files on all that.
Dr. Joyet
I've had certain patients, products of these experiments, casualties. I've also seen things that can only be described as superhuman.
Dana Scully
I'm not a part of any experiments.
Fox Mulder
But you may have been.
Dana Scully
You said there's a man behind this. I need to get out of here.
Fox Mulder
Scully.
Dana Scully
I have to get to the bottom of this, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Scully, I'm on this. I'm on it.
Scene 14
Scully's Phone · Spender's Message
[PHONE BEEPS]
[GROANING]
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Why is this happening? Mulder's coming. This is going to go down badly. We are not to be found.
[PANTING]
Jeffrey Spender
It's Jeffrey Spender. Someone's looking for your son. For William. They came after me in my home. You may all be in danger.
Scene 15
The Smoking Man's House
Cigarette-Smoking Man
They will be coming for me. Mulder will be coming for me. If he finds me, he'll kill me. But we are not to be found.
Scene 16
Mulder on the Road
Fox Mulder
If Scully was a conduit... If her abnormal brain activity was triggered by some external agency... who or what had reason to put her through the trauma? For what purpose and to what end was she suffering? Scully's story would be incredible outright. A dead man unleashing a plague on the world, my impending demise... the desperation to find our son. Unbelievable. If not for the fact that I've been followed since I left the hospital. But followed by whom?
Scene 17
The Smoking Man and Reyes
Cigarette-Smoking Man
This is going to go down badly.
Monica Reyes
Certainly you've taken precautions.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Of course. I've been at this too long not to have my alternatives.
Monica Reyes
You know Mulder. He's determined.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Determined to what? Stop me? He can't stop what's already begun.
Scene 18
Scully's Vision · William
Dana Scully
William, our son.
Jeffrey Spender
Your child is part alien.
Dana Scully
They'll take him from us.
Scene 19
Scully's Room · Jeffrey Spender
Jeffrey Spender
Scully. Agent Scully. Agent Scully.
Dana Scully
What are you doing here?
Jeffrey Spender
I've taken a risk coming here.
Dana Scully
What is it, Spender?
Jeffrey Spender
Someone came at me.
Dana Scully
What do you mean?
Jeffrey Spender
Trying to find your son.
Dana Scully
What did you tell them?
Jeffrey Spender
I didn't tell them anything. But they'll be coming at me again.
Dana Scully
I need to know where he Is.
Jeffrey Spender
You made me promise to hide your son. To never to tell you or anyone where he was. Your son was never to be found.
Dana Scully
I'm asking you to break that promise.
Jeffrey Spender
What if they come at you?
Dana Scully
You don't understand. Mulder's life may depend on it.
[JOYET CHATTERING]
Jeffrey Spender
I only have a name of the adoptive parents. Van de Kamp.
Dana Scully
Help me find him.
Jeffrey Spender
I've already broken a promise.
Dana Scully
No. The Smoking Man, your father, he's the one that's looking for them.
Jeffrey Spender
My father's dead.
Dana Scully
He's alive.
Dr. Joyet
Dana. You've gotta calm down.
Dana Scully
I wanna get out of here.
Dr. Joyet
Nurse, help me. Miss Scully. Security.
Dana Scully
Where are my things? You can't keep me here.
Dr. Joyet
I fear you may seize.
Dana Scully
Just tell me where my things are, I'm leaving.
Scene 20
The Smoking Man and Reyes
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I'm concerned for Scully. If she were to fear her boy was in danger, like Mulder, she'd stop at nothing.
Monica Reyes
The boy is in danger. You said so.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
But I don't understand from whom.
Monica Reyes
You've always had your enemies.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Yes, but why go after the boy now?
Monica Reyes
Maybe they know he's your weakness.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
They couldn't possibly know that. But suddenly everyone knows everything... of you and your plans. My plans are airtight. And even if they were to get out... They would be dismissed as so much fake news. That's the world we live in, Monica. Every day a new disaster. But the one thing no one is prepared for will wipe the slate clean. We refuse to imagine our impending extinction. The acceleration of the cataclysms. We've thrown science out the window in favor of scandal and opinion. Cant and all manner of ridiculous untruths. Civilization a joke... and my plan merely the punch line.
Scene 21
Mulder on the Road
Fox Mulder
Were Scully's visions a prophecy playing out in real time? Just as she foretold, the driver I had dropped had driven me seven hours... through three states and across the border into South Carolina.
[CELL PHONE BUZZING]
Scene 22
The X-Files Office · Scully Calls
Fox Mulder
Scully, what's wrong?
Dana Scully
Nothing. Nothing's wrong.
Fox Mulder
Then stay off the phone.
Dana Scully
It's okay, Mulder. I'm okay.
Fox Mulder
No, Scully, you're not.
Dana Scully
Just listen to me, Mulder. Jeffrey Spender came to me.
Fox Mulder
What are you talking about?
Dana Scully
He gave me a name. How to find our son. Something to start on.
Fox Mulder
You can't be doing this now.
Dana Scully
I need to, Mulder. I've seen how it happens and how it ends.
Fox Mulder
Where are you?
Dana Scully
I don't want you to worry.
Fox Mulder
Scully, where are you?
Dana Scully
Standing at your desk.
Fox Mulder
No. It's not worth It.
Dana Scully
Mulder, I know what I'm doing.
Fox Mulder
Damn it. Scully.
Dana Scully
Where are you?
Fox Mulder
Passing into South Carolina. I'm following a guy.
Dana Scully
This is what I saw, Mulder. How it begins. A confrontation between you and the Smoking Man.
Fox Mulder
All right, look. I want you to listen to me.
Dana Scully
No. This is why you need William. Why I need to find him.
Fox Mulder
I'm gonna call Skinner. I need you to just stay put, okay?
Dana Scully
I have to find our son. You need him... and I need you.
[GASPS]
Fox Mulder
Scully?
[GROANING]
Fox Mulder
Scully?
Scene 23
Scully's Vision · Mr. Y
Mr. Y
Find the boy.
Fox Mulder
What does he want with my son?
Mr. Y
He's a very special child. The threat is that you'll never see your son again.
Scene 24
Scully's Vision · The Smoking Man
Dana Scully
What is happening?
Monica Reyes
You think Scully will forgive you?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
She'll come to see the beauty of it. The beauty of a planet returned to its savage state. Living as we were intended.
Monica Reyes
These are people you're killing.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I'm just cleaning the mess that they made.
Monica Reyes
Doesn't mean we won't hate you.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I've endured more hatred than you'll ever know. My enemies are legion.
Scene 25
Mulder on the Road
Fox Mulder
What price was Scully now paying for her visions and her certainties? What price would I pay for not turning back to help her? All I could do was heed her admonitions.
Monica Reyes
Scully and her boy have a bond beyond you.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Beyond science. She's completely unaware of that.
Monica Reyes
Really? What makes you so certain?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
It's a secret only you and I know.
Fox Mulder
I was running on only adrenaline and Scully's premonitions. But was it hope I should be feeling, or fear that Scully was right... and a man I had come to despise, my own father, was alive? And if he were, he'd become mad with power. I owe it to Scully now to find out the truth.
Scene 26
The Smoking Man and Reyes
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I fear only for Scully and the boy. And the harm my enemies may bring on them.
Monica Reyes
I think you're in love with her.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I worry for her. I always had Mulder to protect her. But now he's going to force my hand.
Monica Reyes
You won't shed a tear for Mulder.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Of course I will. He's my son.
Monica Reyes
What if Scully finds the boy first?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You and I won't let that happen.
Scene 27
The Stately House · Library
Fox Mulder
Federal agent! I'm armed! Please point the gun away. Hands! Hands in the air where I can see them.
Mr. Y
For heaven's sake, Mr. Mulder. All you had to do was knock.
Scene 28
FBI Parking Garage · Skinner
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully?
[CELL PHONE BUZZING]
[CAR ALARMS BEEPING]
Monica Reyes
Both hands on the wheel.
Walter Skinner
What the hell is this, Monica?
Monica Reyes
Me with a gun to your head.
Scene 29
FBI Parking Garage · The Smoking Man
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Mind if I smoke?
[TIRES SQUEALING AND CAR HORNS HONKING]
Scene 30
The Street · Scully's Accident
Bystander
Oh, my God!
Agent Einstein
Ma'am? Are you all right?
Bystander
Call 911!
Agent Einstein
Ma'am, are you all right?
Bystander
Be careful.
Agent Einstein
Ma'am, you okay?
Bystander
Stand back, stand back.
Monica Reyes
Be careful of her head.
Bystander
Here we go. I got you.
Scene 31
FBI Parking Garage
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You've driven a long way.
Walter Skinner
Where's the Smoking Man?
Monica Reyes
We had hoped you'd show us.
Walter Skinner
Answer me!
Scene 32
The Stately House · Mr. Y and Erika Price
Mr. Y
We don't know where he is.
Fox Mulder
Then who the hell are you?
Mr. Y
My name? I don't think it really matters at this point, do you, Mr. Mulder? And certainly I think I must apologize for the imposition. We can tell you this. He was here not long ago. We smoked too much and we drank too much in the foreign service. Your erstwhile father led the way.
Fox Mulder
Answer my question.
Mr. Y
We were all part of a syndicate involved in alien colonization. Surely you knew about this business.
Fox Mulder
You're conspirators.
Mr. Y
Not at all. Quite the opposite. Go. It's okay, Mr. Mulder. Our man here won't be troubling you any longer. This is my associate.
Fox Mulder
I see. Nobody has a name.
Erika Price
We've all had many names.
Fox Mulder
You wanna see me snap?
Erika Price
I don't think you're gonna fire that gun, Mr. Mulder. You haven't heard what I have to say. Let me cut to the point. The man we're both looking for is bent--
Fox Mulder
Hell-bent is what he is.
Erika Price
--on exterminating humanity.
Scene 33
FBI Parking Garage · The Deal
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You'll be pleased to know, Mr. Skinner, I'm here to offer you a deal.
Walter Skinner
I don't make deals. This is a waste of time.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You're still a fairly young man. Years to live, by my estimation. Try me, you son of a bitch.
Walter Skinner
I'm the one with the gun.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Not so long ago, mankind's greatest threats were war, famine, and plague. We've all but conquered them with hard science. This faith in technology, our new religion... when a simple pathogen would kill billions and billions. Your immune system will go first, but this is what will finally kill you.
Walter Skinner
Are you a party to this?
Scene 34
The Stately House · Library
Mr. Y
His plan is already in motion. The aliens are not coming, Mr. Mulder, just So you understand.
Erika Price
No interest in a warming planet with vanishing resources.
Fox Mulder
So just unleash a plague?
Mr. Y
This is no ordinary contagion.
Erika Price
This is an alien pathogen. The end of history, Mr. Mulder.
Mr. Y
And why you have to kill him. The threat is that you'll never see your son again.
Scene 35
FBI Parking Garage · The Deal
Walter Skinner
What are you offering me?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Immunity to it.
Walter Skinner
In return for what?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Find me the boy, Mr. Skinner.
Scene 36
The Stately House · Library
Mr. Y
He needs the boy, Mr. Mulder.
Fox Mulder
He'll never find him.
Erika Price
You doubt his determination?
Mr. Y
He'll use those closest to you.
Fox Mulder
What does he want with my son?
Erika Price
That's the question, isn't it?
Mr. Y
He's clearly a very special child.
Fox Mulder
Why the hell do you care?
Mr. Y
We want to save humanity.
Erika Price
He used to want the same. The aliens came to study us... were prepared to work with us.
Mr. Y
He was to be the man to lead us.
Erika Price
But he became destructive, he took only his own counsel.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Understand, I protected mankind as long as I could, Mr. Skinner.
Scene 37
FBI Parking Garage · The Deal
Walter Skinner
I see. So you're the hero.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
No one would listen. The aliens brought not only technology... They brought the seeds of our destruction.
Scene 38
1947 · The Nevada Desert
Cigarette-Smoking Man
It's what our government would never grasp. And while they were adventuring in Cuba and Vietnam and Central America... I was busy in the Nevada desert dissecting, reverse engineering... playing God with life forms, the stuff of science fiction.
Scene 39
FBI Parking Garage · The Deal
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I had the time, the money, and the freedom to plan for a day I knew would come. You have no idea this man's need to control our fate... How effective and bold his plots and ambitions.
Scene 40
1969 · The Moon Landing Set
Young Jeffrey
Oh, my gosh, we did it. That's really the moon?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Yes. That's really the moon, Jeffrey. That's how heroes are made.
Man
MAN [OVER TV]: Roger. How does it look? Roger.
Scene 41
FBI Parking Garage · The Deal
Cigarette-Smoking Man
It's the fourth turning, Mr. Skinner. Civilization is in its final stages. Alliances are crumbling. Truth is fluid and alterable. The only truth left is to survive it.
Walter Skinner
And who chooses? You?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
There are people with immunity. Agent Scully has it, and her son. They'll survive with a select few.
Walter Skinner
What about Agent Mulder?
Mr. Y
Kill him... before he kills us all.
Scene 42
The Stately House · Library
Erika Price
You're his son, Mr. Mulder. He won't be expecting you.
Fox Mulder
You know what I think? That's only half the story. He wants to exterminate humanity... what's your budding enterprise?
Erika Price
The colonization of space. We're closer than you think. Building Dyson Spheres and magnificent habitable structures.
Fox Mulder
Oh.
Erika Price
That's the plan.
Fox Mulder
A secret space program? I don't think so. I think this is a power play. You want me to kill him so you can implement your own plan. You wanna see blood in the streets. The colonization of space? How do you plan to do that? Transport all humanity off planet? Seven billion people?
Erika Price
That's not possible. Only a chosen few.
Fox Mulder
And you call him evil?
Erika Price
We can take you with us, Mr. Mulder. You and your boy.
Fox Mulder
You're a liar. You're all liars.
Erika Price
Then no one can save us.
Fox Mulder
I know someone who can save US. And I think you know her too. Now, get out of my way. I think we're finished here.
Scene 43
FBI Parking Garage
Monica Reyes
Get your ass back in the car.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I'm not finished.
[CELL PHONE BUZZING]
Scene 44
Mulder on the Road · Skinner's Choice
Fox Mulder
Come on, pick up the phone.
Walter Skinner
Why do you want the boy?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
He's very important to me.
Walter Skinner
You're asking me to betray them... to betray people that I care about.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Ha, ha. No, no, no. I'm asking you to turn your back on the whole human race.
Fox Mulder
Come on.
Scene 45
Our Lady of Sorrows · Observation Room
Dr. Joyet
Are you the FBI agents? I came as quickly as I could. From what I understand, Agent Einstein may have saved her life. How did you find her?
Agent Miller
We were pulling into the FBI and we saw her car get hit.
Dr. Joyet
You knew to bring her here?
Agent Einstein
From her medical bracelet.
Dr. Joyet
Well, she's lucky you found her when you did.
[CELL PHONE BUZZING]
Scene 46
Mulder's Car · Skinner Calls
Fox Mulder
Hello?
Walter Skinner
I just wanted to tell you she's here... in case you were worried.
Fox Mulder
Where is here?
Walter Skinner
The hospital. She had an accident and we're monitoring her.
Scene 47
Scully's Room · The Attack
[EKG BEEPING]
[GRUNTING AND GASPING]
[SHOUTS]
[SCULLY PANTING]
Scene 48
Mulder's Thoughts
Fox Mulder
The horror I had felt. The gut wrench of seeing Scully fighting against the storm in her head... now only doubled. Had I come full circle to find the truth? Or only to uncover greater lies? Not one conspiracy but two. They threaten not only Scully, but our son. A drum beats in my heart.
Scene 49
Our Lady of Sorrows · Triage
Dana Scully
That man they just wheeled out on a gurney... I know that man. The Smoking Man didn't send him.
Fox Mulder
How do you know that?
Dana Scully
Because the Smoking Man won't harm me. He's held my life in his hands. That... was something else.
Fox Mulder
Your visions, Scully... they're not wrong.
Dana Scully
My visions... are from William. I don't know how... but I know that he's guiding me... and you.
Fox Mulder
They're looking for him.
Dana Scully
The Smoking Man can't act without William. I know that in my bones. And William knows it. They won't find him... but he will find us.
Fox Mulder
So we just wait? Do nothing?
Dana Scully
We do our work. The truth still lies in the X-Files, Mulder.
Scene 50
Triage · Skinner
Walter Skinner
They said you were attacked.
Fox Mulder
I was calling you.
Walter Skinner
I didn't get your call.
Fox Mulder
Where have you been, Skinner? Where have you been?
Walter Skinner
Leave it alone, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
I asked you to look for her.
Walter Skinner
I looked for her.
Fox Mulder
Where did you look?
Walter Skinner
I said leave it alone.
Fox Mulder
You smell like smoke.
Dana Scully
Mulder.
Man
Break it up! Break it up! Come on.
Scene 51
FBI Parking Garage · Earlier
Fox Mulder
Whose side are you on?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I said leave it alone, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
What are you hiding?
Walter Skinner
What could possibly make you think that I would ever take your deal?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You're not betraying Scully. She'll be with us. She's immune.
Walter Skinner
You get off on this, don't you? Ha, ha. Manufacturing destiny? Then why kill Mulder? Mulder would kill me. Scully will never take your offer.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
She'll take it.
Walter Skinner
Not without Mulder, she won't.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I'll present her with a simple choice. Mulder or her only son.
Walter Skinner
So this is just vengeance.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Oh, it's more than that. Dana and I have a history. A very important history that goes back 17 years.
Scene 52
The Smoking Man and Reyes · Earlier
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I'm glad you came. We'll need to take a trip.
Monica Reyes
I'm here.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
It will require a few days.
[GASPS]
Monica Reyes
You drugged me.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Ha, ha. I did nothing of the sort.
Monica Reyes
How did I get out of my clothes and into bed?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
We carried you, my housekeeper and I. You'd been up for over 30 hours. You were delirious. You can ask her.
Monica Reyes
I don't know what you're up to.
Scene 53
FBI Parking Garage · William
Walter Skinner
You impregnated her?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
With science, Mr. Skinner.
Walter Skinner
Alien science.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
To create the first superhuman child.
Walter Skinner
Mulder's not the father? I'm asking, who's the father?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I am. William is my son.
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